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General Contemporary Theory Resources
Critical and Cultural Theory Resources (George Washington U. Program in Human Sciences)
Critical Theory and Human Computer Interaction 
Cyberspace, Hypertext, & Critical Theory (George Landow et al., Brown U.)
FrontList Books: Scholarly Books on the Web
Homepage of FrontList Books (online bookstore offering "scholarly and literary titles to readers with decidedly theoretical interests;" emphasis on recently published and soon to be published titles from over 175 publishers in "literary, feminist, queer, and postcolonial theory; cinema, literary, gender, women's, asian, latin american, and cultural studies; fiction, philosophy, anthropology, history, and poetry"; allows browsing by category and includes brief descriptions of books)
African-American Studies 
Anthropology 
Architecture 
Art History & Theory 
Cinema & Media Studies 
Critical Theory / Marxism 
Cultural Studies 
French Stuff (French Theory) 
Gender & Sexuality 
History 
Literary Studies 
Philosophy 
Photography 
Political Science/ Sociology 
(Post)Colonial Studies 
Queer Theory / Gay & Lesbian Studies 
Race & Culture 
Science Studies 
Introduction to Modern Literary Theory ("succinct explanations, key figures, bibliographies,and suggested websites for major literary/cultural theories") (Kristi Siegel, Mount Mary C.)
Mary Klages (U. Colorado, Boulder), Modern Critical Thought (1996) (course site that includes lecture notes on theoretical movements)
John Lye (Brock U.),
A Checklist of Theoretical Concerns 
Close Reading vs Cultural Studies 
Some Characteristics of Contemporary Theory 
Marist College English Web: Postmodern Theory, Cultural Studies, and Hypertext (Tom Goldpaugh)
The Notebook for Contemporary Continental Philosophy (Scott H. Moore, Baylor U.)
Peter Krapp's Theory Site (resources on theory, with a particularly strong suite of pages devoted to the tradition of deconstructive theorists) (Peter Krapp, U. California, Santa Barbara)
Society for Critical Exchange ("North America's only academic society devoted to Literary Theory")
Spoon Collective Theory Discussion Lists (subscription info and archives for the major theory/philosophy listservs and majordomos, including the Lyotard, Deleuze-Guattari, Baudrillard, Feyerabend, and other well-known majordomo theory groups)
SWIRL: Theory at Southern Oregon U. -- Your Guide to Post-Millennial Paradigms
Homepage (Warren Hedges, Southern Oregon U.)
The Big Issues 
Theoretical Paradigms 
Timeline of Major Critical Theories in the U.S. 
U. California, Irvine, Theory Resources
Critical Theory Archives (Critical Theory Institute, U. California, Irvine)
UC Humanities Research Institute Bibliographies (bibliographies for UCHRI conferences by Eddie Yeghiayan) (U. Calif. Irvine)
UC Irvine Critical Theory Institute (Eddie Yeghiayan, U. Calif. Irvine)
UC Irvine Critical Theory Resource (bibliographies of major theorists by Eddie Yeghiayan) (Eric D. Friedman, U. Calif. Irvine)
U. Penn ÉCLAT: The Essential Comparative Literature And Theory Site 
Who's Who in Theory (Campus Community, Southern Oregon U.)
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Cultural Studies (Cultural studies" on this page designates the intersection between cultural criticism/theory and selective resources in sociology, media studies, postcolonial studies, economics, literature, and other fields chosen to represent the alignments that now signify "culture" for the contemporary humanities.) [Show]
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Cyberculture [Show]
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Deconstruction [Show]
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Ecoliterature & Ecocriticism
ASLE: Assoc. for the Study of Literature and Environment
Homepage (ecoliterature and related resources)
ASLE Graduate Handbook on Literature and Environment 
Electronic Archives 
ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 
Publications & Bibliography 
Related Resources on Literature and Environment 
Wildernet: American Environment and American Culture (created by Thomas Thurston's class on "Wilderness and the American Imagination," Yale U.)
Conferences (Ecocriticsm and Ecoliterature)
Environmental Studies Association of Canada (call for Papers for Environmental Arts and Performance,May 28-30, 2002, U. Toronto)
Course Syllabi
ASLE: Course Syllabi 
Thomas Thurston (Yale U.), Wilderness in the North American Imagination 
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Women's Studies & Feminist Theory [Show]
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Film Theory [Show]
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Marxist, Communist, Frankfurt School, & Later-Marxist Critique (Note: Marxist Or Marx-Influenced Theorists Who Have Also Had A More Broadly Or Less-Strictly Marxist Cultural-Critical Reception Are Included Above Under Cultural-Studies [Show]
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Media Studies [Show]
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Narratology
Franz Stanzel on Narration (David Arnason, U. Manitoba)
Journal of Narrative Technique 
Narrative: Journal of the Society for the Study of Narrative (info and contents)
Roger Clough (National Institute of Standards, retired), "Ouroboros: Story Composition and Analysis Using Feng Shui and the Enneagram" (2001) ("a method of composing and analyzing stories, here in the form of dramas, is given which combines elements of chinese five-phase and feng shui theory and the enneagram")
Society for the Study of Narrative (Jay Clayton, Vanderbilt U.)
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Phenomenology [Show]
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Postcolonial Theory [Show]
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Postindustrial Business Theory [Show]
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Postmodernism
General Resources on Postmodern Theory
alt.postmodern (newsgroup)
Contemporary Philosophy, Critical Theory and Postmodern Thought (Martin Ryder, U. Colorado, Denver)
Everything Postmodern (links to postmodernism-related Web sites, newsgroups, philosophers, etc.) (Gregory Broquard)
General Introduction to Postmodernism (Dino Felluga, Purdue U.)
Peter Krapp's Theory Site (resources on theory, with a particularly strong suite of pages devoted to the tradition of deconstructive theorists) (Peter Krapp, U. California, Santa Barbara)
Postmodern Culture
Homepage of Postmodern Culture 
Creative Works from PMC 
Essays in Postmodern Culture (collected from Postmodern Culture journal) (ed. John Unsworth)
PMC-MOO Archives 
PMC Reviews (all) 
PMC's List of Related Readings 
Pop-Cult Columns from PMC 
Postmodern Thought (metapage from Instructional Design Theory, U. Colorado, Denver)
Postmodern Thought Links from U. Colorado, Denver (Marin Ryder)
Postmodernism (SWIRL)
Postmodernism (lecture notes created for a course) (Mary Klages, U. Colorado, Boulder)
Postmodernism, Interactivity, Cyberculture, and Art: Online Resources (Wendy Gale Robinson, U. North Carolina at Chapel Hill/Duke U.)
Some Poststructuralist Assumptions (John Lye, Brock U.)
SWIRL: Theory at Southern Oregon U. -- Your Guide to Post-Millennial Paradigms
Homepage (Warren Hedges, Southern Oregon U.)
Selected Resources:  
The Big Issues 
Theoretical Paradigms 
Timeline of Major Critical Theories in the U.S. 
The/Untimely/Past (bibliographies and links "relating to the intersection of historiographic practice with poststructuralism, postmodernism, and allied areas of theory / practice"; partially annotated and includes some quotations from the works; also includ
Who's Who in Theory (Campus Community, Southern Oregon U.)
Gladys Adamson, "Posmodernidad y la lógica cultural del capitalismo tardío" (1997) (Sincronia)
Laurie Anderson
Laurie Anderson Links (Womynlynks)
Laurie Anderson Page (Peter Hartman)
Laurie Anderson Page (Gayle Olson)
Sheli Ayers (UCSB), "Virile Magic" (Speed)
Barbara Christian: "The Race for Theory" (lecture notes created for a course) (Mary Klages, U. Colorado, Boulder)
Roland Barthes
ArtsandCulture: 
Barthean Codes (David Arnason, U. Manitoba)
Barthes Notes (notes on terms and concepts in Camera Lucida) (Ron Burnett, McGill U.)
PopCultures.com: Roland Barthes (Sarah Zupko's Cultural Studies Center)
Secondary Literature
Brad Menpes (U. Warwick), "Ideology and Responsibility: Derrida, Barthes, and a Question of Method" (Work in Progress, U. Warwick) English Dept.
Jean Baudrillard
General Resources
Baudrillard on the Web (Alan Taylor)
Baudrillard Bibliography (UC Irvine Critical Theory Resource / Eddie Yeghiayan, U. Calif. Irvine)
Jean Baudrillard Page (Campus Community, Southern Oregon U.)
Project Baudrillard 
S(t)imulacrum(b) (extensive Baudrillard page with annotated bibliography and text selections) (Ben Attias)
Interviews
Caroline Bayard and Graham Knight (McMaster U.), "Vivisecting the 90's: An Interview with Jean Baudrillard" (1996) ) (CTHEORY)
Listservs & Newsgroups
Baudrillard List: Archives (Spoon Collective)
Relevant Courses
"COLLAB-l: CyberWars" [Show]
Writings
America (brief excerpts) (1986) (Industrial Strength Travel)
"Hystericizing the Millennium" (from L'Illusion de la fin: ou La greve des evenements, 1992; trans. Charles Dudas, York U.) (CTHEORY)
"Pataphysics of Year 2000" (from L'Illusion de la fin: ou La greve des evenements, 1992; trans. Charles Dudas, York U.) (CTHEORY)
"Plastic Surgery for the Other" (from Baudrillard and Marc Guillaume, Figures de l'alterite, 1994; trans. Francois Debrix, Purdue U.) (CTHEORY)
"Radical Thought" (English translation of La Pensee Radicale, 1994) (CTHEORY)
"Reversion of History" (from L'Illusion de la fin: ou La greve des evenements, 1992; trans. Charles Dudas, York U.) (CTHEORY)
"Rise Of The Void Towards The Periphery" (from L'Illusion de la fin: ou La greve des evenements, 1992; trans. Charles Dudas, York U.) (CTHEORY)
"Strike Of Events" (from L'Illusion de la fin: ou La greve des evenements, 1992; trans. Charles Dudas, York U.) (CTHEORY)
"Thawing Of The East" (from L'Illusion de la fin: ou La greve des evenements, 1992; trans. Charles Dudas, York U.) (CTHEORY)
Andrew Benjamin (U. Warwick), "At Home with Replicants: The Architecture of Blade Runner" (Basilisk)
Charles Bernstein (State U. Of New York, Buffalo)
Charles Bernstein (Electronic Poetry Center, SUNY Buffalo)
"I Don't Take Voice Mail" 
"Warning Poetry Area: Publics Under Construction" (1996) (essay)
Hakim Bey
Hakim Bey Page (Marius Watz)
TAZ: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism (theory of piracy, anarchy, and chaos)
Michael Bischoff, "The End of Philosophy and the Rise of Films" (a thesis on Heidegger, Wim Wenders, and technology)
Maurice Blanchot
ArtsandCulture: Maurice Blanchot (ArtsandCulture.com)
Blanchot Resource Page (Reginald Lilly, Skidmore C., NY)
Blanchot List: Archives (U. Virginia)
Harold Bloom
Marion Long, Interview with Harold Bloom Regarding The Western Canon (HomeArts)
Body/Corporeality Theory (on Cultural Studies page)
Borges Fetishization (part of U. Florida Fetish project)
Rosi Braidotti
"Cyberfeminism with a Difference" (1996) ("I will first of all situate the question of cyber-bodies in the framework of postmodernity, stressing the paradoxes of embodiment . . . ")
Kathleen O'Grady (Cambridge U.), "Nomadic Philosopher: A Conversation with Rosi Braidotti" (1995) (Women's Education des femmes), U. Iowa Libraries)
Commuter's THEater (School of Architecture, U Texas Austin)
Consumptive Writing (A Fatal Strategy) (unique site that presents an anti-"process" approach to the philosophy and practice of composition teaching on the basis of cross-disciplinary reflections centered on Baudrillard's philosophy) (Matthew Levy, U. Texas, Arlington)
Cornel West & His Critics (Brent Edwards)
Couch-Stone Symposium for 1997 (U. Maryland, College Park, April 10-13, 1997) (conference on the relation between postmodern culture and the global economic system) (Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction)
Cybermind (Web page of the Cybermind list)
Guy Debord
Guy Debord (bibliography of Debord, links to many of his texts) (Not Bored"an anarchist, situationist-inspired, low-budget, irregularly published, photocopied journal")
Guy Dubord Society of the Spectacle  (www.marxists.org)
Guy Dubord  (notbored.org)
Pierre Guillaume remembers Guy Debord 
Guy Debord (resources to biographical links and links to/about Debord's work)
Gianfranco Marelli Obituary: Last Curtain Call for Guy Debord (nothingness.org)
Guy Debord
Guy Debord Page 
Howlings in Favor of Sade (1952) 
The Society of the Spectacle (1967) 
Deconstruction
Glen Scot Allen (Towson State U.), "Baptismal Eulogies: Reconstructing Deconstruction from the Ashes" (1993) 
"Conversation with Geoffrey Bennington" (on the relation between deconstruction and hypertext, the Internet, and information technology) (Seulemonde)
Deconstruction: Some Assumptions (John Lye, Brock U.)
Deconstruction (SWIRL)
Paul De Man
Paul de Man Bibliography (UC Irvine Critical Theory Resource / Eddie Yeghiayan, U. Calif. Irvine)
Jacques Derrida (listed separately) 
J. Hillis Miller (listed separately) 
Structuralism/Deconstruction (lecture notes created for a course) (Mary Klages, U. Colorado, Boulder)
Writing in Reserve: Deconstruction on the Net (Derrida page) (Peter Krapp, U. California, Santa Barbara)
Gilles Deleuze And Félix Guattari
General Resources
Deleuze and Guattari: An Introduction (David Arnason, U. Manitoba)
Deleuze and Guattari Internet Resources (Jon Beasley-Murray)
Deleuze & Guattari on the Web (primary and secondary works) (Alan Taylor, U. Texas, Arlington)
The Deleuze & Guattari Page (Spoon Collective; Jon Beasley-Murray & Jim Castonguay) ("This website accompanies the deleuze-guattari email list . . . forum for discussion and experimentation rooted in both the separate and joint works of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari . . . since 1994)
Giles Deleuze & Felix Guattari Page (Campus Community, Southern Oregon U.)
Other Relevant Pages
Deleuze and Guattari Rhiz-O-Mat ("The first version of the Rhiz-o-Mat was created on the 'm.e.s.s.i.a.h.' site circa May 1995. A Thousand Plateaus recommended a record-album style of reading -- what if it skipped? . . . A series of meta-tags. A simple quote feeder. "Push Media" . . . BlebNet has now reformatted this arcane textual artifact with an all new post-apocalyptic shell with a client-based back-end squiggle.")
Jacques Derrida, "I Have to Wander All Alone" (words on the death of Gilles Deleuze) (trans. David Kammerman, Tympanum)
Smooth/Striated Cyberspace (assemblage of comments and links relating the web to Deleuze and Guattari's notion of "smooth space")
Secondary Literature
Ian Buchahan (U. Tasmania), "Deleuze and Pop Music" (1997) (Australian Humanities Review)
Vadim Linetski (Hebrew U., Jerusalem), "The Promise of Expression to the 'Inexpressible Childe': Deleuze, Derrida and the Impossibility of Adult's Literature" (1997) (Other Voices: The e-Journal of Cultural Criticism)
David N. Rodowick (Cornell U.), Gilles Deleuze's Time-Machine (Chapter One) (1997) 
Writings & Interviews
Gilles Deleuze, "Desire & Pleasure" (1994) (1997 trans. by Melissa McMahon) (Globe E-Journal)
D+G Bibliography (Lorri Nandrea)
Charles J. Stivale (Wayne State U.), "Pragmatic/Machinic: Discussion with Félix Guattari (19 March 1985) 
Paul De Man
Paul de Man Bibliography (UC Irvine Critical Theory Resource / Eddie Yeghiayan, U. Calif. Irvine)
Jacques Derrida
General Resources
ArtsandCulture: Jacques Derrida 
Bibliography of Publications by Derrida (organized by year) (Peter Krapp, U. California, Irvine)
Bibliography of Derrida Bibliographies (Peter Krapp, U. California, Santa Barbara)
Derrida Resources (Notebook for Contemporary Continental Philosophy)
"Derrida and Deconstruction" (David Arnason, U. Manitoba)
Foreign Body ("a deconstructive fanzine. Its purpose is to spread, like a virus") (Peter Krapp, U. California, Santa Barbara)
Glasweb (Peter Krapp, U. California, Santa Barbara)
Jacques Derrida Page (Campus Community, Southern Oregon U.)
Writing in Reserve: Deconstruction on the Net (Derrida page) (Peter Krapp, U. California, Santa Barbara)
Secondary Literature
Kip Canfield (U. Maryland), "The Microstructure of Logocentrism: Sign Models in Derrida and Smolensky" (1993) 
"Conversation with Geoffrey Bennington" (on the relation between deconstruction and hypertext, the Internet, and information technology) (Seulemonde)
Derrida: "Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences" (lecture notes created for a course) (Mary Klages, U. Colorado, Boulder)
Steven Helmling (U. Delaware), "Historicizing Derrida" (1994) (Postmodern Culture)
Vadim Linetski (Hebrew U., Jerusalem) [Show]
Notes on différance (John Lye, Brock U.)
Writings & Interviews
Applied Derrida (interview with Derrida) (Writing in Reserve)
"Architecture New York" (Summary of Impromptu Remarks) (Peter Krapp, U. California, Santa Barbara)
"I Have to Wander All Alone" (words on the death of Gilles Deleuze) (trans. David Kammerman, Tympanum)
Jacques Derrida (selective bibliography) (UC Irvine Critical Theory Resource/Eddie Yeghiayan, U. Calif. Irvine)
Jewish Mystic? (part of an interview with Derrida) (Peter Krapp, U. California, Santa Barbara)
Letter to a Japanese Friend (1983) (Peter Krapp, U. California, Santa Barbara)
Elizabeth Weber (U. California, Santa Barbara), "To Experience the Future and Welcome the Monster" (interview with Derrida) (Peter Krapp, U. California, Santa Barbara)
Donna Haraway (on Cultural Studies page)
Edward W. Said (on Cultural Studies page)
Elisabeth Weber: Selected Bibliography (Peter Krapp, U. California, Santa Barbara)
Emmanuel Levinas (on Philosophy page) 
Fetishturgy (U. Florida project inspired by
Fredric Jameson (on Cultural Studies page)
Friedrich A. Kittler Bibliography (Peter Krapp, U. California, Santa Barbara)
Gender and Postmodern Communication ("This page locates the current Monist Interactive Issue discussion on Gender and Postmodern Communication"; includes links to resources)
Geoffrey Hartman (bibliography) (UC Irvine Critical Theory Resource/Eddie Yeghiayan, U. Calif. Irvine)
N. Katherine Hayles (UCLA), "The Materiality of Informatics" (1993) (Configurations)
Sean Homer (Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, U. Sheffield), "Mapping the Terrain of Theoretical Anti-Humanism" 
James S. Hurley, "Marcuse's Car: Pulp Fiction and the Sublime Object of 'Cool' " (1997) (Thresholds)
Linda Hutcheon
Kathleen O'Grady (Trinity C., Cambridge U.), "Theorizing -- Feminism and Postmodernity: A Conversation with Linda Hutcheon (1997)" 
Hypertext, or Anti-Linear Navigation (beautifully-designed hypertext work on hypertext and poststructuralist theory) (Eric Feay)
Earl Jackson, Jr. (U. California, Santa Cruz), Alien/ations: The Postmodern in Japan and EuroAmerica (course)
Jacques Lacan (under Psychology below) 
Jason Brown's Page (UCSB) (requires graphical browser) (technically and aesthetically advanced set of pages of interest to literary and art theorists)
Jerome McGann's Home Page 
Judith Butler (on Gender Studies page) 
Julia Kristeva (on Gender Studies page) 
Jürgen Habermas (on Cultural Studies page)
Michael Kilburn, "Appropriation and the Semiotics of Seeing" (1997) Thresholds)
Arthur Kroker
"Digital Humanism: The Processed World of Marshall McLuhan (CTHEORY)
Arthur Kroker and Marilouise Kroker "Code Warriors: Bunkering In and Dumbing Down" (CTHEORY)
Arthur Kroker and Michael Weinsten "The Hyper-Texted Body, Or Nietzsche Gets a Modem" (CTHEORY)
Laurence Rickels Online (Peter Krapp, U. California, Santa Barbara)
Vadim Linetski (Hebrew U., Jerusalem) (See Also Under Deleuze And Derrida On This Page)
"Poststructuralist Paraesthetics and the Phantasy of the Reversal of Generations" (1996) (Postmodern Culture) (requires Project Muse subscription)
Luce Irigaray(on Gender Studies page) 
Jean-François Lyotard
Jean Francois Lyotard's The Differend: Phrases in Dispute (Robert S. Leventhal, U. Virginia - Responses to the Holocaust: A Hypermedia Sourcebook for the Humanities)
Jean-François Lyotard (bibliography) (UC Irvine Critical Theory Resource/Eddie Yeghiayan, U. Calif. Irvine)
Literary Theory: A Literary Theory Project in the Dept. of English, Rice U. (currently centered on Lyotard's Just Gaming and performance theory)
Lyotard Auto-Differend Page (a technical experiment and theoretical allegory; makes extensive use of client-pull animation to create a universe of automatic page sequences organized around the philosophy of Lyotard) (Alan Liu)
Lyotard: Bibliography-in-Progress (Spoon Collective Lyotard List)
Lyotard Listserv Archives (Spoons Collective)
Readers' Guide to Lyotard (Spoons Collective)
Spoon Collective Lyotard List (Shawn P. Wilbur)
Adrian Mackenzie (Sydney U.), "'God Has No Allergies': Immanent Ethics and the Simulacra of the Immune System" 
Victor Margolin (U. Illinois, Chicago), "The Politics of the Artificial" (1995) (philosophical approach to the concept of artifice that includes discussion of William Gibson, Jean Baudrillard, Donna Haraway, and other postmodern writers)
Marist College English Web: Postmodern Theory, Cultural Studies, and Hypertext (Tom Goldpaugh)
Mark Poster (on Cultural Studies page)
Keven McNeilly (U. British Columbia), "Ugly Beauty: John Zorn and the Politics of Postmodern Music" (includes sound clips) (PMC, 1995)
Melissa McMahon, "Beauty: Machinic Repetition in the Age of Art" (1996) (Globe E-Journal)
Michel Foucault (on Cultural Studies page)
J. Hillis Miller (U. California, Irvine)
General Resources
J. Hillis Miller Page (Peter Krapp, U. California, Santa Barbara)
Selective Bibliography (UC Irvine Critical Theory Resource/Eddie Yeghiayan, U. Calif. Irvine)
Synopsis of J. Hillis Miller, "The Critic as Host" (John Lye, Brock U.)
Writings
J. Hillis Miller (U. California, Irvine), "Graphic or Verbal: A Dilemma" (1998) (on the Victorian "multimedia" novel; drawn in part from Miller's Black Holes, 1999)
Mobilis in Mobili: Theory Page (Mark Nunes)
Mudus Philosophicus (Cafe des Philosophes) (Assoc. for Systematic Philosophy MUD and happy hour) (telnet)
Murray Krieger (bibliography) (UC Irvine Critical Theory Resource/Eddie Yeghiayan, U. Calif. Irvine)
National Association of Scholars (NAS)
Homepage (the recent pro-canon, anti-pc, anti-"post" professional organization of literary scholars; "the only academic organization dedicated to the restoration of intellectual substance, individual merit, and academic freedom in the universi
Pondering Postmodernism ("an experimental site, still under development, whose purpose is to list actual course descriptions from the pages of college and university catalogs--from all academic disciplines--as well as incidental items to highlight what sparks the post
The Undergrowth of Philosophy ("containing all that is wacky, preposterous, and just plain silly in contemporary philosophy")
Robert Nideffer (U. California, Santa Barbara), "Bodies, No-Bodies, and Anti-Bodies at War: Operation Desert Storm and the Politics of the 'Real' " (dissertation on the representation of the Gulf War; "The following chapters touch down in many different places in order to explore how the development, use, control and interpretation of various technological devices served to help code the w
No Dogs or Philosophers Allowed (Ken Knisely's Socratic Philosophy Television) (Web support page for the No Dogs or Philosophers Allowed TV shows)
No Dogs or Philosophers Allowed: Outbound Links 
Peggy Kamuf: Selected Bibliography (Peter Krapp, U. California, Santa Barbara)
PMC-MOO Archives 
Postmodernism and Art History (articles "on over three years of exhibitions at museums and galleries"; browseable "by artist, period in art history, or postmodern ideas"; I link artists and ideas, because I write about artists that get me thinking") (Joh
Rodolphe Gasché: Selected Bibliography (Peter Krapp, U. California, Santa Barbara)
David N. Rodowick (Cornell U.)
Homepage of D. N. Rodowick 
"Audiovisual Culture and Interdisciplinary Knowledge" (1995) 
Gilles Deleuze's Time-Machine (Chapter One) (1997) 
Preface to The Difficulty of Difference: Psychoanalysis, Sexual Difference, and Film Theory (1991) 
Preface to The Crisis of Political Modernism: Criticism and Ideology in Contemporary Film Theory (2nd ed., 1994) 
"Reading the Figural" (1990) 
Avital Ronell
Avital Ronell Bibliography (Peter Krapp, U. California, Santa Barbara)
Alexander Laurence, Interview (1994) 
Ron English - Agit-Pop Artist
Homepage of Ron English, Agit-Pop Artist 
Agit-Pop 
Revisionist Modernism 
John Rothfork (New Mexico Tech.), " Postmodern Ethics: Richard Rorty & Michael Polanyi" (1995) 
Samuel Weber Page (Peter Krapp, U. California, Santa Barbara)
fran sendbuehler, Image, Object, Text in the Production of Daniel Richler's "Kicking Tomorrow" (this thesis "examines the reproduction of the text; that is, not the act of writing, but the act of editing and preparing a book for publication reproduction of a manuscript with its paratext. Hence, this study is a genetics of reproduction as
Steven Shaviro, Doom Patrols ("theoretical fiction about postmodernism and popular culture"; full text of book)
Cindy Sherman
Show Your Fetish (collective hypertext writing experiment using X-Change Space) (
Situationist International
Situationist International (Shawn Wilbur, Bowling Green State U.)
Situationist International Archive (Spud)
Situationist International Bibliography (Shawn Wilbur, Bowling Green State U.)
Gayatri Spivak
ArtsandCulture: Gayatri Spivak (ArtsandCulture.com)
Spivak Glossary (Deepika Bahri, Emory U.)
Spivak Page (Michael Kilburn, Emory U.)
Stanley Fish Page (Campus Community, Southern Oregon U.)
Allucquere Rosanne Stone (U. Texas, Austin)
"The 'Empire' Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto" 
MONDO 2000 Interview (uncut version) (text file)
Sandy Stone's Homepage 
"Techno-Prosthetics and Exterior Presence: A Conversation With Allucquere Rosanne Stone" (Speed, Spring 1995)
"Violation and Virtuality: Two Cases of Physical and Psychological Boundary Transgressions and Their Implications" 
"What Vampires Know: Transsubjection and Transgender in Cyberspace" 
Stuart Hall (on Cultural Studies page)
Mark Tribe, "Postmodern Time" (1993) 
Gregory Ulmer
Gregory Ulmer's Home Page 
Paul Virilio
General Resources
Dromosphere (Virilio links from Speed 1.4)
Speed 1.4: Issue on Paul Virilio (created as part of the MFA project of Robert Nidefer, U. California, Santa Barbara, this issue of Speed presents articles, interviews, and links relevant to Virilio in a mock-"search interface" format designed to simulate/appropr
Paul Virilio (wikipedia)
Secondary Literature
John Armitage "Beyond Postmodernism? Paul Virilio's Hypermodern Cultural Theory" (2000) (CTheory)
Shawn P. Wilbur (Bowling Green State U.), "Dromologies: Paul Virilio: Speed, Cinema, and the End of the Political State" 
Works & Interviews
James Der Derian, Interview with Paul Virilio (1997) (Speed)
John Armitage "The Kosovo War Took Place in Orbital Space" (2000) (CTHEORY interview with John Virilio)
Paul Virilio "Speed and Information: Cyberspace Alarm!" (1995) (CTHEORY)
Louise Wilson "Cyberwar, God And Television: Interview with Paul Virilio" (1994) (CTheory)
Gabriel Watson & Jason Brown (U. California, Santa Barbara), "Cultural Proesthetics: The Mutational Aesthetics of the Late Organic" (multimedia, hypertext work) (Speed)
Shawn P. Wilbur (Bowling Green State U.)
Homepage 
" 'Cyberpunks' to Synners: Toward a Feminist Posthumanism?" 
"Dromologies: Paul Virilio: Speed, Cinema, and the End of the Political State" 
Shawn P. Wilbur's Cyberspatial Page 
What is the Postmodern, Anyway? (Shawn's pomo links)
Mark Wolff, "Post-Structuralism and the ARTFL Database: Some Theoretical Considerations" (1994) (Information Technology and Libraries)
Wolfgang Iser (bibliography) (UC Irvine Critical Theory Resource/Eddie Yeghiayan, U. Calif. Irvine)
Carina Yervasi "Pre/Sub/Urban Sprawl: The 19th Century Parisian Passage as 'Failed' Urban Mall" (Speed) 
Slavoj Zizek
Geert Lovink, "Civil Society, Fanaticism, and Digital Reality: A Conversation with Slavoj Zizek" (1995) (CTHEORY)
Zizek Resources (Notebook for Contemporary Continental Philosophy)
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Psychology (Including General Psychology, Cognitive Science, Evolutionary Psychology, Pscyhoanalysis)
Academy for the Study of the Psychoanalytic Arts ("The Academy 's organizing interest and defining project is to be found in the reconsideration, reexamination, and rethinking of the philosophical-theoretical underpinnings of psychoanalysis within a contextual metaphor other than that of heal
ArtsandCulture: Psychoanalysis (ArtsandCulture.com)
The Brain: A Work in Progress (Los Angeles Times series on new bio-psychological research, Oct. 1996)
Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies (U. Sheffield) 
Cognitive Science & the Arts (Cynthia Freeland, U. Houston)
Contemporary Philosophy of Mind: An Annotated Bibliography (David Chalmers, U. California, Santa Cruz)
Depts. & Programs
NYU Psychology Dept. 
Sigmund Freud
General Resources on Freud
The Freud Web (extensive hypertext resource) (George P. Landow, Brown U.)
A SuperCard guide to Freud's Dream Theory (requires downloadable plug-in) (John Collick, Waseda U., Japan)
Writings
The Interpretation of Dreams (EServer)
Healing the Mind: An Exhibition of Arts and Crafts by Artists With Mental Illnesses (Verlangieri Virtual Gallery of Art)
Norman N. Holland, "The Internet Regression" 
Imagination and the Adapted Mind: The Prehistory and Future of Poetry, Fiction, and Related Arts: Univ. of California, Santa Barbara; Aug. 26-29, 1999 (conference in which "humanistic participants will address aspects of the imaginative arts that might eventually illuminate the nature of the cognitive systems which produce and process cultural representations while the cognitive scientists
International Society for Theoretical Psychology (Christopher D. Green)
Earl Jackson, Jr. (U. California, Santa Cruz)
Semiotics and Psychology (course)
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 
Journal of Memetics: Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission (peer-reviewed)
Jacques Lacan
ArtsandCulture: Jacques Lacan (ArtsandCulture.com)
Kid A In Alphabet Land: A Trading Card Set Dealing With Jacques Lacan ("An Abededarian Roller Coaster Ride Through the Phallocentric Obscurantism of Jacques Lacan, With Apologies to Slavoj Sizek. 30 card series") (Carl Steadman, HotWired)
Lacan (lecture notes created for a course) (Mary Klages, U. Colorado, Boulder)
Lacanian Links ("largest annotated Lacanian link list in cyberspace") (Timothy Leuer, Kurume U., Japan)
Lacan Page (Peter Krapp, U. California, Santa Barbara)
Peter Starr (USC), "The Tragic Ear of the Intellectual: Lacan" (1998) (on Lacan and May 1968) (Tympanum)
François Lachance (U. Toronto), Sense: Orientations, Meanings, Apparatus (comparative literature dissertation; "Each section of the study examines how an organization of the senses affects theory making")
R. D. Laing
Clare, Dr. Anthony 51-minute streaming video interview (The Roland Collection of Films and Videos on Art: A great resource with over 300 hours of streaming video available for free viewing)
Literature, Cognition & the Brain ("research at the intersection of literary studies, cognitive theory, and neuroscience"; page includes "abstracts, reviews, accounts of work forthcoming or in progress, links to related web sites, and a regularly updated bibliography&
The Lucifer Principle (support page for Howard Bloom's book explaining the origin of evil from an evolutionary-psychology perspective; includes brief excerpts and
Mind and Body: René Descartes to William James (site on the mind-body problem from the 17th through 19th centuries; originally a 1992 exihibit at the U. S. National Library of Medicine) (Robert H. Wozniak, Bryn Mawr College)
Narrative Psychology: An Internet Guide ("focuses upon narrative perspectives in psychology and allied disciplines and provides an interdisciplinary guide to bibliographical and Internet resources concerned with 'the storied nature of human conduct' ") (Vincent W. Hevern, Le Moy
Ninth Street Center (Paul Rosenfels Page) (site dedicated to the ideas of the "Chicago-based psychiatrist who, after breaking with psychoanalysis in the 1940's, developed his own ideas about human relationships")
Noetica (cognitive-science journal)
The Personality Index ("This page is simply intended to gather together links to a variety of home pages organized by personality type. . . . In a sense, I consider this page to be a test of the validity of the theory of personality typing") (Dou
Philosophy of Psychiatry Bibliography ("ethical, social, political, legal, historical and philosophical issues in mental health and psychiatry") (Christian Perring)
The Pre-History of Cognitive Science Web (annotated bibliography and discussion of philosophers of human cognition from the 17th through 19th centuries) (Carl Stahmer, UC Santa Barbara)
Psychoanalysis (SWIRL)
Psychoanalysis and the Public Sphere Forum (Robert M. Young, Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, U. Sheffield)
Psychoanalysis and Sigmund Freud (lecture notes created for a course) (Mary Klages, U. Colorado, Boulder)
Psychoanalytic Theory (John Lye, Brock U.)
Psychology Page (Patrick Macartney, U. Leeds)
Psycoloquy: Refereed Interdisciplinary Journal of Psychology, with Peer Commentary (journal for "cognitive science, neuroscience, behavioral biology, artificial intelligence, robotics/vision, linguistics and philosophy")
Psyc Site: Science of Psychology Resources (Ken Stange, Nipissing U.)
Resources of Scholarly Societies - Psychology (U. Waterloo)
Resources on the History of Idiocy (well-developed "bibliographic and text resource base"; includes links to texts on the topic) (Murray K. Simpson, U. Dundee)
Michael Rustin and Andrew Cooper, Psychoanalysis and "the Public Sphere: The Project in Changing Times" (1996) 
Herbert Simon, "Literary Criticism: A Cognitive Approach" (1994) (Stanford Electronic Humanities Review)
Theory & Psychology Journal 
(conference) Trauma and Memory: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (May 22-24, 1998, U. New South Wales, Australia) (includes abstracts of papers)
The Turing Test Homepage ("contains all the information that we could find concerning the so called 'Turing Test' ") (Pinar Saygin, Varol Akman)
Sherry Turkle (MIT), "Tough Love: An Introduction to Françoise Dolto's When Parents Separate" 
Shmuel Vaknin, Malignant Self Love: Narcissism Re-Visited 
Robert M. Young (Centre For Psychotherapeutic Studies, U. Sheffield): Selected Essays
"British Psychoanalysis and Politics" (1991) 
The Culture of British Psychoanalysis and Related Essays on Character and Morality and on The Psychodynamics of Psychoanalytic Organizations (1996) 
"Primitive Processes on the Internet" (1996) ("an exploration of people's primitive feelings about computers and getting on the Internet. It also examines some of the fantasy and other irrational elements of being on the 'net")
"Psychoanalysis and the Other: Psychopathology and Racism" (1993) 
"Psychoanalysis and/of the Internet" (1995) 
"The Psychoanalysis of Sectarianism" (1993) 
"Psychotic Anxieties and the Fading Hopes of the Left" (1992) 
"Racism: Projective Identification and Cultural Processes" (1992) 
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Reader Response Theory
Russell A. Hunt (St. Thomas U.), Essays On Literary Reading 
David S. Miall and Don Kuiken, "Forms of Reading: Recovering the Self-As-Reader" (1996) ("We question theoretical claims that there is nothing intrinsically "literary" about literary texts, and examine some empirical studies that appear to support a formalist position")
Reader-Response: Various Positions (John Lye, Brock U.)
Stages of Reading Literature as Aesthetic Experiencing (hypertext guide to reader response to literature) (English Dept., Virginia Commonwealth U.)  
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Semiotics
Applied Semiotics / Sémiotique Appliquée (peer-reviewed online journal)
David Chandler (U. Wales, Aberystwyth), "Semiotics for Beginners" 
Charles S. Peirce Page 
Classes of Signs (David Arnason, U. Manitoba)
Ferdinand de Saussure (see under Early to Mid 20th-C. above) 
Earl Jackson, Jr. (U. California, Santa Cruz), Semiotics and Psychoanalysis (course)
Roman Jakobson (see under Early to Mid 20th-C. above) 
Thomas Sebeok, "Communication" 
Semiotics (metapage) (U. Colorado, Denver)
Sites of Significance for Semiotics
Homepage (well-organized collection of links to large-scale resources relevant to semiotics and related fields) (Pascal Michelucci)
Calls for Papers in Semiotics 
Dictionary 
Encyclopedia 
Fun and Beyond 
Metapages 
Sites of Significance for Semiotics: People and Groups 
Semiotics Texts (Applied Semiotics)
Proceedings 
Research groups 
Semiotic Issues 
Semiotics and Cognitive Sciences 
Semiotics and Culture 
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Structuralism [Show]
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